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Exactly 50 years ago the Beatles invaded America, 40 years ago the first Fest for Beatles Fans was held and this weekend the 25th iteration of the event is back in Los Angeles for the first time since 2000.

While Paul McCartney was performing at Petco Park in San Diego on Sept. 28, George Fest, an all-star concert celebrating the life and music of George Harrison at Hollywood’s 1,200-seat Fonda Theatre was staged benefiting the musician’s charity Sweet Relief via the Jameson Neighborhood Fund.

I grew up listening to The Beatles. In that respect I consider myself lucky because there’s a lot of crappy music that made it onto the airwaves over the years. KC & the Sunshine Band’s entire catalog comes to mind.

Becky Peters was 15 when The Beatles performed at Dodger Stadium in 1966 — and she wasn’t anywhere in the crowd. “My parents wouldn’t let me go,” she said. Now 63, the Downey native wasn’t going to miss out on another historic performance.

After more than four decades, Sir Paul McCartney will take over Dodger Stadium — again. Sunday night’s concert is part of McCartney’s Out There Tour and is the first time The Beatles front man will have performed at the L.

Could a phenomenon like the Beatles’ appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Feb. 9, 1964, happen again? No way. In today’s multiple-screen world of entertainment, it would be impossible to draw that level of interest for a musical act.

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr perform individually and together on CBS’ “The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles” that airs Sunday night, exactly 50 years to the day The Beatles made their historic first appearance on that network’s “Ed Sullivan Show.

The Beatles have had a profound effect on American music and culture. Here are some of the highlights: STYLE: Soon after the Fab Four hit America, most teenage boys wanted to grow Beatles-length hair and get collarless jackets and Beatles boots.

Has it really been 50 years ... half a century? That kind of time span sounds so historic. So serious. Maybe even a little pretentious when describing a pop phenomenon like The Beatles. But this was, after all, the band whose youth, cheekiness and musical brilliance taught us that sometimes lightning can be captured in a bottle.

Chris Carter knows just about everything there is to know about the Beatles. As host of “Breakfast with the Beatles,” 9 a.m. to noon Sundays on KLOS (95.5 FM), he has to. It’s not something you can fake; it has to be in your heart.

The other day, while picking up my 7-year-old daughter, Sophia, from her after-school program, one of her caregivers stopped me for a chat. She told me she was surprised to walk into the classroom to hear the Beatles tune, “And I Love Her,” being whistled.

Elvis Presley had already been a cultural phenomenon. Phil Spector was sneaking some of those fusty philharmonic instruments into his Wall of Sound. Bob Dylan was changing the scene with some mighty serious stuff well before he went electric.

LOS ANGELES — There’s an easy way to give pop music’s most performance-hardened stars a case of the butterflies: Ask them to perform in front of The Beatles. Many of today’s top artists gathered Monday night to honor The Beatles’ legacy, with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in attendance and late members John Lennon and George Harrison always in mind, at The Recording Academy’s taping of “The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles.

January has been a big month for actors with various award shows honoring those in both television and film. But now it’s the music industry’s turn with the 56th annual Grammy Awards, which takes place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday.

NEW YORK -- Paul McCartney is on a roll this week. A day after performing at a New York City high school, the ex-Beatle surprised fans Thursday with an impromptu concert in Times Square. McCartney announced the concert on Twitter and then arrived by taxi at the “Crossroads of the World” an hour later.

John Lennon, with a little help from his friends Paul, George and Ringo, plans to make Friday night an extraordinary one at the historic California Theatre. Lennon, aka David Leon, is one of The Stars of Beatlemania! billed as the “No.

LONDON — The Beatles plan to release a new collection of the band’s BBC sessions, including unreleased recordings and studio chatter. The CD and vinyl release planned for November will be a follow up to the wildly successful “Live at the BBC” album released in 1994.

LOS ANGELES - On Feb. 9, 1964, The Beatles appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" for the first time, sending a nation already gripped by Beatlemania to unprecedented levels as more than 70 million American men, women and children tuned in. Click Here: Photos from Paul McCartney on the Hollywood Walk of Fame